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Bonusly

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What is Bonusly?

Bonusly helps teams improve engagement and adopt the behaviors that set them, and their organization, up for long-term success. It is used to make recognition meaningful and habitual, and to help organizations build cultures where people want to stay and…

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Amazing Employee Recognition Platform - Highly recommend!

Rating: 9 out of 10
November 18, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Amazing experience! We love using Bonusly for our team and seeing peer and peer shout-outs and employee recognition. It's been a fun way to celebrate our teams at all levels c...
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Verified user
Director
Bonusly2 years of experience

Surefire way to increase employee appreciation and engagement

Rating: 10 out of 10
October 12, 2021
Vetted ReviewVerified User
We utilize Bonusly across all departments of our organization. We have clinicians that work in various locations, so Bonusly gives us all a way to stay connected, and share su...
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Abigail Koenig
Executive - Professional Services
Founder/Executive Director
Colorado Autism Consultants
Bonusly4 years of experience

Enriching the company culture while uplifting the employee morale at the same time

Rating: 10 out of 10
May 9, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Bonusly is that intuitive recognition and reward system we use to acknowledge and reward achievements, efforts, contributions of managers, co-workers, and teammates. The rewar...
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Candace Mitchell
Professional - Human Resources
Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist
Portland General Electric
Bonusly3 years of experience

Push-Button Employee Recognition Program

Rating: 10 out of 10
December 23, 2020
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We leverage Bonusly as an employee-to-employee recognition platform. Anyone in the organization has a monthly pool of points which translates to real money/gifts. The product ...
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Jared Miller
Manager - Product Management
NOC Manager
Doberman Technologies, LLC
Bonusly4 years of experience

Fun and simple way to make your employees feel valued and appreciated

Rating: 10 out of 10
January 23, 2020
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use it across the company to recognize the hard work of our colleagues and the small things that often go unnoticed in the hustle and bustle of day to day work.
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Verified user
Account Manager
Bonusly1 year of experience
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$2

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$5

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per month (billed annually) per seat

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$7

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  • No setup fee
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  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $2.70 per month per seat
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Product Details

What is Bonusly?

Bonusly helps teams improve engagement and adopt the behaviors that set them, and their organization, up for long-term success. It is used to make recognition meaningful and habitual, and to help organizations build cultures where people want to stay and grow together.


The vendor states that more than 3,400 global organizations, including DoorDash, Toast, Seat Geek, and Magna-Tiles, use Bonusly’s recognition to see what recognition done right can achieve.

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Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android, Mobile Web

Frequently Asked Questions

Bonusly starts at $2.7.

Kudos®, Motivosity, and Achievers are common alternatives for Bonusly.

The most common users of Bonusly are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Bonusly is a versatile platform that has been widely adopted by businesses to recognize and appreciate outstanding employees. Users have found Bonusly to be an effective tool in boosting morale, engagement, and teamwork within their organizations. The software creates a culture of recognition and appreciation, providing additional incentives and sparks of positivity for a job well done. With its user-friendly platform and wide variety of reward options, Bonusly offers an excellent solution for enhancing employee motivation and satisfaction in the workplace.

One of the key use cases of Bonusly is its ability to foster a sense of community and appreciation within the workplace. By allowing users to recognize and reward their peers, Bonusly helps create a positive and uplifting environment that greatly improves morale. This social recognition aspect not only boosts team spirit but also promotes collaboration and teamwork among employees, leading to increased productivity and overall success.

Another valuable use case of Bonusly is its effectiveness in remote work environments. The platform has been instrumental in connecting distributed teams and promoting meaningful peer-to-peer recognition that might otherwise never be communicated. Through Bonusly, more people and teams are able to receive recognition for their good work, even in remote settings. Additionally, Bonusly helps instill positive company values, motivation, and networking among co-workers, making it especially beneficial for organizations with remote or distributed teams.

Furthermore, Bonusly serves as a great tool for enhancing peer recognition and motivation in various work settings. Users have reported that the software allows them to easily express gratitude and recognize their co-workers' accomplishments, leading to improved employee engagement, collaboration, and team-building. By encouraging proactive problem-solving and improvement among team members, Bonusly promotes good work ethics and encourages better performance.

Overall, users have had positive experiences using Bonusly, appreciating its ease of use, fun interface, and the benefits it brings to their workplace. They find it to be an effective solution for recognizing colleagues' contributions, fostering positive relationships among team members, and creating a culture of respect and teamwork.

Positive Sentiment Analysis:

  • Ability to give rewards and bonuses to colleagues: Reviewers appreciate the ability to give rewards and bonuses to their colleagues, which helps create a positive and supportive work environment. Many users find Bonusly to be a valuable tool for recognizing colleagues who consistently go above and beyond, helping reinforce company values.
  • Accumulating vouchers over time: The feature of being able to accumulate vouchers over time is seen as a pleasant surprise and adds to the overall enjoyment of using the platform. Several reviewers mention that this option allows them to treat themselves or others to small rewards, which they highly value.
  • Real-time recognition and feedback: Users highlight the ability to give bonuses in real-time and recognize colleagues' achievements on the spot as a major benefit of using Bonusly. This feature is praised by many reviewers for its convenience and efficiency in showing gratitude and appreciation towards coworkers.

Cons:

Limited rewards options: Some users have mentioned that they would like to see more options for gift cards or reward incentives, as well as the option for anonymous recognition. Additionally, a few users have felt that the international catalogs didn't offer many choices. Difficult user interface: Users have found the user interface to be clunky and difficult to navigate, particularly when searching for rewards. Locating specific posts can also be challenging for some users. Issues with pricing model: Some users feel that the pricing model, which increases with each additional user, is cumbersome and could be simplified. They suggest having a pricing structure that is easier to understand and manage.

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Amazing Employee Recognition Platform - Highly recommend!

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
November 18, 2021
Verified User
Director in Human Resources
Marketing & Advertising Company, 51-200 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Bonusly
2 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Amazing experience! We love using Bonusly for our team and seeing peer and peer shout-outs and employee recognition. It's been a fun way to celebrate our teams at all levels company-wide, especially during the remote environment with COVID.
Pros
  • Great platform design - easy to navigate and fun to use
  • Great job connecting teams to communicate and celebrate hard work
  • Aces it on employee recognition and peer to peer feedback
Cons
  • N/A - I think bonusly does great for what it is
Likelihood to Recommend
Bonusly is great for employee engagement and peer-to-peer recognition. It's a nice way to celebrate team wins, hard work, collaboration, and build a fun culture. Our team always adds fun GIFs and it's nice to see this across departments, levels, and people coming together on their own to celebrate hard work/recognition. They also give points [that] can be cashed in for gift cards. Bonusly is not as well suited for feedback in terms of improvement more recognition and celebration privately and publically.
Most Important Features
  • Employee Recognition
  • Celebrating Hard Work
  • Rewarding teams with points and gift cards
Return on Investment
  • Has absolutely improved engagement across our global teams
  • helped up continue to build a great culture
  • puts people and celebrating team work first in a fun and interactive platform
Alternatives Considered
the cost was [the] main factor for us. I think the platforms are very similar. Bonusly is one focused on just employee recognition which is great and concise. BlueBoard offers a lot more by way of experiences and gift-giving for recognition but on the pricier side.
Other Software Used

Enriching the company culture while uplifting the employee morale at the same time

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
May 09, 2021
CM
Candace Mitchell
Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist
Portland General Electric (Utilities, 1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Bonusly
3 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Bonusly is that intuitive recognition and reward system we use to acknowledge and reward achievements, efforts, contributions of managers, co-workers, and teammates. The rewards can be in-form of bonuses, branded items, gift cards, vouchers, time-offs, opportunities, and other types of rewards. This makes employees feel valued and perform their jobs excellently.
Pros
  • Makes rewarding employees simple and impactful.
  • Integrates with collaboration communication and other HR tools.
  • Adding of unique custom rewards.
Cons
  • The presentation of rewards on the dashboard should have access restrictions to limit people from seeing totals of amounts awarded.
Likelihood to Recommend
Bonusly allows the company to come up with different ways of rewarding employees and materialize them while applying creativity to the whole process of rewarding the employees. These reward programs can be tailored to the needs, personalities, and preferences of the employees to ensure we deliver more meaningful rewards. What I like most is how we creatively generate company-branded rewards.
Most Important Features
  • Personalized bonus feeds.
  • Great analytics and reporting.
  • Automated awards.
Return on Investment
  • Employees put forth extra effort and take on additional responsibility.
  • More creative ideas from employees to improve business processes and solve problems.
Alternatives Considered
  • Kudos
Bonusly builds a recognition-rich culture like no other reward and recognition software by empowering everyone to recognize their peers, direct reports, and managers. With nifty features and a simple interface, Bonusly is fun and intuitive to use and employees tend to adopt quickly and use it frequently. It is definitely a game-changer.
Other Software Used
Box

Surefire way to increase employee appreciation and engagement

Rating: 10 out of 10
October 12, 2021
AK
Abigail Koenig
Founder/Executive Director
Colorado Autism Consultants (Health, Wellness and Fitness, 11-50 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Bonusly
4 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We utilize Bonusly across all departments of our organization. We have clinicians that work in various locations, so Bonusly gives us all a way to stay connected, and share successes, and helps all staff to gain a better understanding and share appreciation even in areas of the organization that they may not have regular exposure to.
Pros
  • Fosters a culture of appreciation for one another
  • Allows for each staff to select reinforcers of meaning to them specifically
  • Can help tomato sure celebratory dates aren’t forgotten (birthdays, work anniversaries)
  • Increases employee engagement
  • Connects distance employees and employees who don’t have a department team around them to remain engaged and connected to others
  • Allows for specific hashtags that can be tied into company values, to reiterate core values of the organization.
Cons
  • Tying GIFs to employee "shout outs" is a popular feature in our culture. Any expansion of the GIF library would be put to good use.
Likelihood to Recommend
Bonusly can be a game changer for fostering a culture of appreciation and engagement amongst staff. It speaks especially well to the younger generation, but even our more senior staff seem to love it to. I could see it being a little more difficult to use in industries in which technology use was not part of the day to day work, as you do need to either pull the app up or look at your email to know if someone sent you Bonusly points and recognition. In any office setting, education, healthcare, technology, or other industry though that includes an email or computer component, Bonusly ties seamlessly into the day and I have yet to find a place that has implemented it who hasn’t loved it.
Most Important Features
  • The ability for peers to give one another bonuses and shout outs gives people at all levels the ability to get involved in rewarding one another
  • Birthday reminders
  • Looking through GIFs that people tie into recognition posts are so much fun and really keep people engaged with the platform.
Return on Investment
  • For the majority of months over the past year months, over 95% of our active employees receive Bonusly points from at least one coworker each month, increasing the opportunities to feel appreciated for the hard work they do.
  • More than 50% of Bonusly points and appreciation that are given by one employee are "added onto" by another employee, showing that the staff really do read through the great things others are doing and thus prompt one another to celebrate as well.
Alternatives Considered
I haven’t found any other platform that I would consider in a similar product to Bonusly. When we got involved with the platform, it was the only one of it’s type and we’ve been blown away with it since then.
Other Software Used

Fun and simple way to make your employees feel valued and appreciated

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
January 23, 2020
Verified User
Account Manager in Sales
Information Technology and Services Company, 201-500 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Bonusly
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use it across the company to recognize the hard work of our colleagues and the small things that often go unnoticed in the hustle and bustle of day to day work.
Pros
  • Visibility for the entire company into bonuses given/received.
  • Meaningful rewards that make people actually want to use the platform.
Cons
  • Took me awhile to find where all of my previous bonuses were housed.
Likelihood to Recommend
Especially at a busy company where everyone has high goals/metrics and the company is large and/or spread out, Bonusly gives everyone a way to recognize the unsung heroes. These are often the little things that make companies and individuals successful and give employees much needed boosts in outlook and help to make them feel valued.
Return on Investment
  • Gives employees increased sense of value.
  • Fun way to reward people for going above and beyond.
Support Rating
10
I never had any issues with support. It's especially nice to be able to add location-specific rewards.
Other Software Used
Outreach, ZoomInfo, Gong.io

Push-Button Employee Recognition Program

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
December 23, 2020
JM
Jared Miller
NOC Manager
Doberman Technologies, LLC (Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Bonusly
4 years of experience
View profile
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We leverage Bonusly as an employee-to-employee recognition platform. Anyone in the organization has a monthly pool of points which translates to real money/gifts. The product helps re-enforce our values as employees are encouraged to 'bonus' each other for perceived events. And everything is handled inside the app with VERY little administrative/HR overhead needed.
Pros
  • Prize selection, a wide variety of gift card, charity, and even PayPal cash payout options.
  • Prize reclamation/flow of money in, and points out. Most other systems are not nearly as hands-free as this. People are able to claim everything with zero approval/foot-work from your HR/Admin team. No prize book to maintain, no trips to the gas station to buy gift cards. It's just smooth.
  • Freedom to post however/whatever you like in the open-ended timeline/social media-esk posting feature.
Cons
  • Moderation. The freedom to post anything for recognition can get out of hand depending on your tolerance/company culture. There are very little to no tools around better this.
  • Bonusly has not done much in the way of adding features. Hard to call it a con but other similar platforms have extended into allowing more directed involvement from the organization. In other words: Bonusly is a little TOO hands-off in some ways.
Likelihood to Recommend
Hands down this tool nails what it sets out to do. If what you need is a no-fuss method of allowing employees to build each other up that is a completely self-reliant system that only requires your predictable capital investment: there is no better. There are more feature-rich tools so there are plenty of cases where it may make sense to opt for a more robust system. I think small and large teams benefit the most from a platform like this. Small teams where every minute of admin time is precious. Or big teams where complexity can become an issue, or said large teams that are looking for a supplemental system to their current bonus/employee recognition programs.
Return on Investment
  • Employees are encouraged to "live the values" as other members see and recognize their achievements monetarily.
  • This spreads a load of recognition from just leadership/managers across the entire organization, potentially eliminating/reducing a recurring existing task your company is currently doing.
  • Features/freedom of posting in a 'social media' style environment encourages light-hearted comradery between employees.
Alternatives Considered
The "big name" to me has always been CrewHu. Not sure why they aren't in the listing at the time of this writing but they are far and away the big name from my perspective. This is the main other tool we've seriously considered and I think it highlights the opposite points I've made in the rest of this review. It is much larger in scope involving allowing your clients to participate, among many other smaller tools/features that Bonusly does not have. Conversely, it's a beast; the tool needs regular attention and engagement to leverage fully and make the investment cost worthwhile.

Bonusly shines through as the simple and straightforward option on the market. There may come a time where we want more and change tools entierly to better fit new business needs. But I can see Bonusly benefiting just about any team, where other tools really require certain scenerios.
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